In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu selected two articles from The Book of Rites, The Doctrine of the Mean and The Great Learning, and combined them with The Analects of Confucius and Mencius into four books.
After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, "Da Xue" and "The Doctrine of the Mean" became official textbooks and required books for imperial examinations, which had a great influence on ancient education. It contains the core content of Confucianism and is the concentrated embodiment of Confucian epistemology and methodology. It has far-reaching influence in the history of China's thought. Up to now, it still has its profound educational significance and enlightenment value, and it can be called the cultural essence with a long history.
Tsinghua University 20 18 independent entrance examination announcement, "humanistic society (Confucian classics)" professional direction registration requirements wrote:
Love China culture, good conduct, and take learning and studying Confucian classics as a lifelong career; I have received a systematic education, and I can recite three-character classics, hundreds of surnames, thousands of words, Li Weng's rhyme, and Long Wen's distinguishing English. Have a good foundation of Confucian classics, and can recite four books (Daxue, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius), as well as one book of changes and one book of songs; I have the basic knowledge of philology, learned Shuo Wen Jie Zi, can write 540 radicals of seal script, and can simply explain the "Six Books".
It can be seen that the four books have great influence both in ancient times and in modern times.
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The value of one or four books
As long as we talk about the traditional culture of China, we must mention the "Four Books". The Four Books are an important part of China's traditional culture, the core carrier of Confucianism and the treasure of China's historical and cultural ancient books. The Confucian classic "Four Books" contains extremely extensive and profound contents, and occupies a very high position in the history of world cultural thought.
The four books recorded in detail the political, military, diplomatic, cultural and other historical materials in the most active period in the history of Chinese ideological and cultural development, as well as the important philosophical thoughts of Confucius and Mencius that have influenced China culture for thousands of years.
The four books have immeasurable influence on social norms, interpersonal communication and social culture. Today, the contents and philosophical thoughts contained in the Four Books still have positive significance and strong reference value for us modern people.
Second, introduce Zhu and others to combine Mencius, Analects of Confucius, universities and the golden mean.
Zhu (1130 September15-1200 April 23rd), with a dark personality, was called Huian, later called Huiweng, and was called Zhu Wengong in the world. Originally from Wuyuan County, Huizhou Prefecture (now Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province), he was born in Youxi, Nanjian Prefecture (now Youxi County, Fujian Province). Famous Neo-Confucianist, thinker, philosopher, educator, poet, representative of Fujian School, master of Confucianism, Buddha named Zhu Xi.
Zhu is the only person who is not a disciple handed down by Confucius, but likes to visit the Confucius Temple. He ranks among the twelve philosophers in Dacheng Hall and is worshipped by Confucianism. Zhu is a student, a disciple of Cheng Er (Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi), and he is also called a school with Cheng Er. Zhu's Neo-Confucianism had a great influence on the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties and became the official philosophy of the three generations. He is another person after Confucius in the educational history of China.
/kloc-at the age of 0/9, Zhu took the Jinshi exam. He once served as Governor of Nankang, Jiangxi, Governor of Zhangzhou, Fujian and Governor of East Zhejiang. He is an honest official and promotes the construction of academies. This official worships Huan's attendance system and gives lectures to the emperor.
Zhu Zhu is the author of Notes on Four Books and Sentences, Notes on Taiji, Notes on General Books, Readings of Zhouyi, Notes on Chu Ci, etc. Later generations compiled Zhuzi Daquan and Zhuzi Xiang. Among them, "Notes to Four Books and Chapters" became the standard of textbooks and imperial examinations.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Four Books
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